The Complete Book of Cheese by Bob Brown is a comprehensive guide to the world of cheese, offering readers a wealth of information on cheese types, history, production, and practical uses in cooking. Brown provides detailed descriptions of various cheeses from around the world, including their origins, flavors, and the best ways to enjoy them. The book also covers the processes involved in cheese-making, making it a valuable resource for both culinary enthusiasts and those simply looking t...

Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline'This book is a powerful reminder that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice only if brave people make the effort to bend it.' —Geraldine BrooksFor half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who would put profit before planet.In Defiance, he draws on this experience to inspire a new generation of individual and co...

In Optimism, Bob Brown shares with us his stories and insights from throughout his public and private life, that reveal the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown and inspired him to achieve. It is a powerful book as well as a meditation on the great and the small. Inspiration...

Over the years, Bob Brown has been assaulted, jailed, vilified and shot at for his stance on the environment and human rights. This is his account of the defining moments in that life of activism, from the famous Franklin River blockade to his parliamentary protest against George Bush – a few minutes that gave voice to what many Australians felt but had no way of saying.By turns inspiring, compassionate and outraged, this personal story of being green makes the key issues easily und...

In "The Complete Book of Cheese," Bob Brown meticulously explores the rich and diverse universe of cheese through an engaging blend of history, artistry, and culinary knowledge. Brown employs a lyrical yet didactic prose style that makes both novice cheese lovers and connoisseurs feel equally addressed. The book delves into the origins, production methods, and regional nuances of various cheeses, all while weaving in anecdotes and trivia that illuminate their cultural significance. This co...

The author of "The Complete Book of Cheese" got his inspiration in cuisine after his studies at the University of Wisconsin, where he got acquainted with several Swiss professors who turned out to be experts in cheese. That experience inspired him to travel around the world to seek regional wisdom and knowledge on the art of preparing cheese. The presented here book was created after his extensive travels overseas and return to New York. It contains invaluable and extremely practical infor...

The former leader of the Australian Greens, Bob Brown has long been one of Australia's most influential and admired environmental thinkers. Here he outlines the importance of a global, humane approach to the issue of overpopulation.At once compassionate, intelligent and straightforward, this is a valuable and significant extract from Brown's memoir, Memo for a Saner World.

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

Insightful, humorous, and inspiring memoir of self-described "regular guy" Bob Brown's courageous battle with pancreatic cancer and his journey through the medical community to save his life. In a conversational tone that feels like youre chatting with a lifelong friend, Bob shares the play-by-play of his fight to stay alive and make the right treatment decisions, affirms the difference a positive attitude can make, and celebrates the unexpected gift of a new perspective on life.Wh...

In the Bible, the Israelites completed their journey into the Promised Land by crossing the Jordan River at Gilgal. Now Jason Matthews is on his own journey, struggling to understand the complex series of events in his life as God's plan to fulfill a particular purpose -- to lead him to his own Promised Land. This is the uplifting story about one man's journey to complete his Gilgal passage.

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist wh...